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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Ben Kingsley

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Arrive Film Lines Special
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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Actor Attractive Layer Probably
I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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Camera Exercise Focus
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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People Style Thinking
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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Children Fantasy Remember
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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Film Running Wonderful
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Fischer Knows Want
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough

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